The Amazing Life of Glenn Loury

The Comedy Cellar: Live from the Table

In a remarkable and candid conversation, Glenn Loury discusses his new book "Late Admissions," and his amazing, checkered, erratic, inspirational, and dramatic life.

00:00:00 Introduction

00:04:37 Performing the book for Audible

00:05:04 Had to be Honest to be Believed

00:09:09 A Gifted Family

00:15:22 Understanding Slavery and History

00:20:07 Constant Self-Doubt and Inferiority Complex

00:26:11 Betraying a Best Friend

00:32:25 Decoding Glenn's Politics from His Life

00:32:57 Stealing a Car

00:38:54 A Child Is Born

00:39:54 Glenn's Son's Gift to His Father

00:47:34 Glenn's Heroic Father

00:49:05 Glenn feels Put Off by Middle-Class Blacks

00:57:13 Arrested

01:03:14 Modern Hypocrisy

01:05:29 Speaking in Tongues

01:09:33 Smoking Crack

01:20:21 Called the N-Word

01:24:00 Final Remarks on Humanity